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"I know the place." He said, sliding in and laying his hands on the wheel. "Ol' "Roachtrap" Jack's. I like to think I helped put that fucker out of business."

He gripped the wheel, pressed down on the accelerator, and they were off. He started slow, getting used to this cars particular quirks. He was pleasantly surprised. She was showing her age, of course, but the old girl appearance belied a shocking amount of power. It was almost like she was trying to impress him. Satisfied, his body relaxed and he let instinct take the wheel.

Matthew still hadn't fully gotten used to the sensation of driving even after few years had passed. It was automatic almost, finely honed muscle memory calling the shots. He couldn't tell you what he doing right to make the car dance like he did. It was like he was watching someone else do it, like he was the navigator in one of those big cross country rally races they did over in Europe. His job was to point the guy who knew what he was doing in the correct direction. To spot for the ghost of his old life. In the months after he'd woken up Matthew had had to relearn the muscle memory necessary to wipe his own ass. His skill behind the wheel, though? Pristine condition. He trusted himself totally.

He was much less comfortable with the gun. Compared to the car it weighed a ton when he reached over and took it. "Maybe?" he said. "I'm a quick study, in any case."

He held it gripped to the wheel, finger off the trigger, as the mood went dark. "Can't we do anything for him too?" he asked Mira. "I mean, not with these but, y'know, magic? I know I'm new to this but I saw... I mean I read about the first few times this happened. The new guys then, they..." He trailed off, his mind flashing back to a particular phrase he'd read in an article. "They went off like supernovas."
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Location: The Darkest Steppe ~ Yog-Sothoth's Jurassic Fight Club Part 5: Dinosaurs Vs. Dragons
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Linkle didn't have hardly any time to celebrate sinking both those shots into the monsters neck before it let out a scream that crashed into her like an enraged Bracyadose. Her whole body shook, he crossbows clattering to the ground as her hands went instinctively and uselessly to her ears.

he couldn't block it out, the noise being carried down her rabbit ears to shake her brain. She stumbled back in a daze as it ended, her vision blurry, one set of ears ringing like bells and the other still well enough to recognize the rhythmic thump thump thump made by the footfalls of a charging animal.

It occurred to Linkle that she hadn't given thought to what she would do if the explosions didn't go off, or weren't powerful enough to stop the monsters charge. Like with most Linkle Ideas™ the consequences were just something to be dealt with after. The obvious answer was get out of the way but that wasn't happening until she got her legs back under her and judging by how loud those stomps were getting she didn't have that kind of time

She threw out her arms instead in a desperate attempt to mitigate the damaged from getting blown up again. Oh Hylia if this didn't work out she was going to get blown up again! A full on explosion this time too, not just a close call. She was pretty tough, it wouldn't kill her outright, but she'd seen what this thing had done to Bowser. She wasn't as tough as Bowser!

As these felling built up, powered on by the stress she was under, something strange began to happen. The temperature around her began dropping rapidly. Her hair started to sparkle in the golden light then lifted unnaturally and in a flash transformed from blond to blue. Ice started to coalesce in front of her outstretched hand, growing and growing until it formed a crude and uneven semicircle of waist high ice wall.

Of course she didn't have the time to appreciate what she'd just done either, because at that point the crystals went off just like she planned and sent new sharp pains into her already tender ears. She wasn't even in any position to appreciate the incredible monster\dragon throwdown going on almost right in front of her.
Matthew's face hardened in the dark as the call came to an end. The FOE seemed like they were as subtle as they ever were, the self-righteous pricks. Not that he had ever said that to their faces. There was a difference between being brave and suicidal.

Like right now. If they went back right now and got tangled up with the FOE while trying to find another mage they were gonna die. He was gonna die. That was like a lamb wandering into the lions den, soaking itself down in delicious BBQ sauce, and flopping itself down belly up. That was the whole intention of that phone call even. That's what the lions out there both wanted and now expected. This was actually another example of his insane lucky streak, every jackboot pressed down on someone else face was someone not coming for them. Just going on was the best for her goals too, wasn't it? Hadn't she ever heard that a bird in the hand was worth two in the bush.

His mind was throwing all these points at him as he said, "Can you tell me where they should be?" There was no anxiety in his voice as he spoke, the nervous energy that had gripped him up to this point seemingly changing gears and being re-routed into an eagerness. "Because I can be anywhere in this city in 30 minutes or less. Much less if I'm not obeying traffic laws and, considering we're right in the middle of The Purge, fuck the police. Pull over, lets switch."

All those points arguing against going back were good. They were logical. Just leaving was objectively the smart play. All of them, though, were broken against an image Matthew held in his mind. Not quite a memory, in all likelyhood something he had just made up to fill the void; A young mage walking down the side of the cold road, afraid and alone.

There was no logic in the world that wouldn't shatter against that.
"Ughhhhhhhhhhh," Maisy went, leaning back uncomfortably as the girl creamed in her face. Hesitantly she reached out a hand, raised it palm side up, and awkwardly patted her inverted shoulder as she dangled from the branches. "There there?" She tried to say.

You couldn't hear it over the scream.
"Oh hey, I remember him." Maisy said, watching the rude man from when she'd first started trip the girl onto the ground where she proceeded to sink until only her legs were kicking around.

Maisy ran up and grabbed ahold of the legs flailing in the dirt, ready to apply her considerable strength stat to pull her out. "Do it again, do it again!" She said to the druid, prepairing to pull once the ground was slurry again.
"That's okay!" Maisy called after the fleeing lady, cupping her hands around her mouth. "You don't gotta fight me if you don't want to."

This was a weird battle. In her experience enemies didn't run away like that. Maybe the big guy was supposed to be a special fight.
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There was a double post here. It's gone now.
Maisy claps her hands together and uses Fortify, then smiles and Jono and gives her a thumbs up.
Sucks.

Sorry, too. I didn't acknowledge Maisy falling down because in my head she didn't and then I missed somehow missed a couple posts. I didn't make it clear enough that she sent the other two guys into the dirt, so I'll accept that.
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